Thursday Blogwrap

You can not describe a period of architecture that defines most of Brooklyn because Brooklyn grew over a period of 300 years and the architecture reflects this. The oldest neighborhoods date to colonial days when it was a Dutch colony. The name Brooklyn is derivative of these Dutch colonial beginnings. Frame homes in Brooklyn Heights and other areas date to the 1800’s. Row houses started springing up in the mid 1800’s. at the beginning of the 20th century the builders of Victorian Flatbush decided to get away from the row home concept and built a community of freestanding frame homes but in the 1930’s the rowhomes were reinvented first in Brownsville and later around the 1950’s in East Flatbush in the form of “Fedder” attached bricks. In the 1960’s Harry Waxman built Ranch style homes in Seaview village commonly referred to as the Waxman splits. Brooklyn house styles are just as eclectic as its people and like the people they keep reinventing themselves. There are good books on the subject. I can’t think of any off hand but I’m sure your search engine will lead you to a few.

You often link to the Kensington blog but not the Ditmas Park blog which we could of course accuse of being just as lame. But considering that you do get alot of hits on Brownstoner from Ditmas Park residents, you should link it.

Didn’t you run this photo the other day?